The MAA is excited to announce our 2025 MAA Shooter of the Year competition. Based on results from five of our most popular events, a shooter of the year will be awarded in six different divisions at the 2025 Voyageur Cup.
Male Compound | Female Compound | Male Recurve | Female Recurve | Male Barebow | Female Barebow |
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Timothy Lopez (317.2) | Reese Peterson (222.3) | Craig Holmlund (169.2) | Maya Miller (187.2) | Alex Yarbrough (271.5) | Nicole Borwege (233.6) |
Tim Wilson (292.6) | Callidora Muonio (150.1) | Jerry Podratz (166.1) | Olivia Houck (114.8) | Garrett Prahl (264.4) | Teresa Pettit (178.4) |
Austin Gibson (291.7) | Zoie Thompson (149.8) | Michael Larson (126.5) | Alyssa Dumke (73.5) | Lucas Bjur (159.4) | Violet Berg (141.8) |
Taylor Given (253.3) | Kim Landry (138.2) | John Steinle (80.0) | Bruce Miller (153.8) | Attia Fondren (88.3) | |
Andrew Moorhouse (247.7) | Abby Tomsich (110.4) | Steve Schultz (74.0) | Jason Dumke (128.4) | Avery Wiese (84.7) |
Complete standings for the 2025 Shooter of the Year competition are available here.
Please review the competition information and rules below.
The MAA will award a shooter of the year in six divisions:
The shooter of the year winner in each division will receive $300. Second place will receive $150 and third place will receive $75.
There are no specific age requirements. Competitors will simply have to shoot the adult distances and rounds to earn points toward the competition. This means that in most cases young adults and up for NFAA and U18 and up for USA Archery will be eligible.
MAA membership is required to be eligible for the shooter of the year competition.
Shooter of the year points will be earned at the following events during 2025:
The total shooter of the year score will be determined by an archer’s four highest scoring events.
The MAA is using a system called the Performance Method that uses data from NFAA and USA Archery national championship results to calculate “performance points” for a particular score in the compound, recurve, and barebow divisions.
You can read more about how the Performance Method was developed on the archerytoolkit.net web site here. There are lookup tables available as well that will show you how many performance points will be earned for a particular score.
Some notes about performance points:
If you’d like to learn more about the origin of the Performance Method including some of the statistics behind it, try the article The Performance Method: An Improved Archer Ranking System for Determining a “Shooter of the Year” by Tim Wilson.